The WUWT Extent Projection: 4.55 million square kilometers. Readers polled, 142 responded with 22.11% of responses in the range of 4.5 to 4.6 million square kilometers. 4.6 million sqkm 11.21% (72…
Tag: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The Kevin Trenberth / Seth Borenstein aided fact free folly on the USA heat wave
I cringe every time I see stories like the one being pushed in the Associated Press today by AP science writer Seth Borenstein. My Way News – This US summer…
Nature, record heat, tipping points, Hansen's opinion on weather noise, and all that
From NCDC’s spring report here More record warmth as scientists warn of global tipping point – CNN.com — It’s hot out there. But this time, it’s more than idle watercooler…
WUWT gets results
Readers may recall yesterday that I posted this story : As hurricane season starts, the FSU hurricane season forecast is the odd man out citing “active”. This was from the…
* As hurricane season starts, the FSU hurricane season forecast is the odd man out citing "active"
*UPDATE: FSU has made a change, the press agent writes to me with this update: The lead researcher on the hurricane forecast has requested a change to the headline to…
H2O 2012 conference theme: "please send money"
From Stanford University , this press release with a “who the heck cares?” question as a title. We have far bigger problems in California to worry about. It is another…
Don't Say That! Just Don't Say It!
As the result of a Freedom of Information Act request, the US Government has released the list of words that will trigger the Department of Homeland Security to start monitoring…
NOAA/NWS under fire – 'misappropriated $43 million dollars'
Report: National Weather Service misappropriated $43 million By Isolde Raftery, msnbc.com Jack Hayes, the director of the National Weather Service, stepped down Friday in response to an investigation that top…
Sunspot AR1476 takes aim on Earth
From Spaceweather.com NOAA forecasters estimate a 75% chance of M-class solar flares and a 20% chance of X-flares during the next 24 hours. Any eruptions are likely to be geoeffective…
Solar cycle update for April – sun still slumping
Got a bit sidetracked earlier in the month, this is overdue for an update. Earlier we reported that Hathaway had updated his solar cycle prediction saying “…the predicted size makes…
"firecracker" sunspot turning towards earth – possible large solar flares
Sunspot AR1476 may have some surprises for us in the coming days, and I hope it isn’t a Carrington type event. It has already launched two CME’s yesterday. From NASA’s Spaceweather.com:…
McKibben connects the weather dots on sh** happens
Oh boy. The propaganda gets thicker. It’s a Forrest Gump moment. Billy McKibben connects the weather dots, except it spells out nothing more than – sh** happens. This is one…
NOAA on severe weather preparedness
No mention of climate in this joint NOAA/FEMA press release, thankfully. – Anthony Contact: National Weather Service Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 301-713-0623, ext. 121 April 20, 2012 …
Warming in the USHCN is mainly an artifact of adjustments
Dr. Roy Spencer proves what we have been saying for years, the USHCN (U.S. Historical Climatology Network) is a mess compounded by a bigger mess of adjustments. ============================================================== USHCN Surface…
Does CO2 correlate with temperature history? – A look at multiple timescales in the context of the Shakun et al. paper
Guest post by Michael Pacnik Especially in the context of recent discussion of the Shakun et al. paper, a look at other sources for temperature history versus CO2 can be…
Roy Spencer's ISH population adjusted discoveries
Readers recall that I carried a guest post from Dr. Roy Spencer on what he learned from analysing the CRUTem3 data: Spencer shows compelling evidence of UHI in CRUTem3 data.…
An update on my Climate Reference Network visualization project
Readers may recall that when Peter Gleick first sent out the stolen Heartland board documents and the fake document to give the story “legs”, there was a mention in there…
A reply to Shakun et al – Dr. Munchausen Explains Science By Proxy
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a new study entitled “Global warming preceded by increasing carbon dioxide concentrations during the last deglaciation”, Shakun et al. (paywalled, hereinafter Shakun2012). The paper…
I'm not waiting by the phone for the Nobel committee to call
I was rather surprised to see this interview in Physics World with Dr. Richard Muller (h/t to Bishop Hill) with this praise. “If Watts hadn’t done his work, we would…
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